"We’ve been living like outrageous pigs in this country for a long time"

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The New Yorker‘s Elizabeth Kolbert spoke at Yale on Wednesday–discussing issues of climate change and of our porcine lifestyles…but also of journalism in general. Worth a read.

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.